Step into Climate Action- 2nd Public Event of RurALL
‘Step into Climate Action’ online symposium took place on 20 February 2025. The second event of our project RurALL - Rural Active Citizenship Labs, part of the Citizens, Equality, Rights and Values (CERV) programme, focused on exploring the actors and the tools which shape our attitudes to the changing climate and provide best practices on local and global level both for action and education.
Hundreds of people attended the talks, which featured Hungarian and international speakers and guests. Thank you to everyone who joined us for this mindset-changing programme.
Thinking also of those who would like to listen to the 2 roundtable discussions, we make them available to the general public here on our website.
Please feel free to recommend them to others, as we all stand to gain more people become more aware of global climate change issues!
Roundtable discussions from the 20 February symposium: Finding Common Ground in Understanding Climate Challenges
Participants of the roundtable discussion:
Krisztina Csapó - Deep Adaptation guide, representative of DA Hungary
Bálint Forgács - psychologist, ELTE PPK
Alexandra Köves - economist, university professor, representative of degrowth movement
Levente Pribéli - biologist, human ecologist, Biodiversity Campaign Officer at Greenpeace Hungary
Gábor Vasárus - geographer and researcher in spatial and urban development KRTK RKI_HUN-REN
Moderator: Károly Nagy, journalist, radio presenter, editor, writer
The Climate Activism's Toolkit - Change your Mindset for Change!
Participants of the roundtable discussion:
Miriam Ureta Garcia - PhD in Political Sciences, lecturer at the Faculty of Social Sciences and Communication, University of the Basque Country
Simona Jurovata - representative of the initiative ‘Youth for Climate’, youth worker focused on environmental topics in Slovakia
Eka von Kalben - Vice President of the Parliament of Schleswig-Holstein and chief negotiator of the local climate law
Maurício Umman - permaculture farmer, ecological architect, co-founder and teacher of the O Fojo Education Centre, leader of Fractal Regenerative Technologies
Thomas Waitz, Austrian farmer, green politician, MEP
Moderator: János Kendernay, politician, environmental activist, head of the City Diplomacy Unit of Budapest
The event is organized in the framework of the Citizens, Equality, Rights and Values Programme, RurALL- Rural Active Citizenship Labs project.
Funded by the European Union. Views and opinions expressed are however those of the author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or the European Education and Culture Executive Agency (EACEA). Neither the European Union nor EACEA can be held responsible for them.
